WPF ListView Very Slow Performance - Why? (ElementHost, or Other Reason?)

Question

I have a Windows Forms app, that has a single ElementHost containing a WPF UserControl... in my WPF, I have a VERY simple ListView:

Answer 1

You may also want to check this excellent article on the Code Project:

WPF: Data Virtualization By Paul McClean http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WpfDataVirtualization.aspx

It show you a much better approach at minimal memory and bandwidth usage.

Answer 2

Use virtualization

<ListView ItemsSource="{BindingNames}"Name="lv">
            <ListView.ItemsPanel>
                <ItemsPanelTemplate>
                   <!--<StackPanel/>
                    If StackPanel was used, the memory consumed was over 2GB and dead slow.
                    -->
                   <VirtualizingStackPanel>
                    <!--Memory footprint is only 200 mb-->
                    </VirtualizingStackPanel>
                </ItemsPanelTemplate>
            </ListView.ItemsPanel>
            <ListView.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding}"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ListView.ItemTemplate>
        </ListView> 

Answer 3

I had a case where the answers presented here didn't solve my problem. In my case, setting the MaxHeight property of the ListView to a value larger than the actual displayed height solved it immediately, thanks to this answer here, even if I cannot explain how and why it worked.